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katjap

katjap is the obsolete form of ketchup.

Meaning of ketchup

Noun

ketchup (countable and uncountable, plural ketchups)

  1. (archaic, countable) Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes, but with mushrooms, fish, etc.). This is the older meaning.
    • The bottles, however, were port bottles, but contained mushroom ketchup; […]1883, Cassell's Dictionary of Cookery, page lxxxiii

See all 2 meanings of ketchup

Forms of katjap

pluralkatjaps

Questions about katjap

What is katjap the obsolete form of?
Katjap is the obsolete form of ketchup.

Words near katjap in the dictionary

  1. Katipunan-Bayani
  2. Katipunero
  3. Katipuneros
  4. katis
  5. Kativik
  6. katjap
  7. katjaps
  8. katjiepiering
  9. katjiepierings
  10. katkop
  11. katkops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: katjap (page history and authors); ketchup (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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